A Digital Star Wars Scrapbook.

Made available to the press in early 1997 around the same time that the Star Wars Special Edition trilogy was about to hit theaters, this 6 minute snippet of behind the footage shows us what "State of the art" technology looked like almost twenty years ago... [More]

When Star Wars landed in the theaters, it introduced audiences to a galaxy filled with heroes and villains, robots and space ships, and a dizzying variety of alien life. But when the lights came up, they all disappeared... Unless you had all the toys. In which case, the adventure never had to end... [More]

Yet another TV special from 1997, this time from the Sci-Fi Channel (before it became SyFi), once again exploring the Star Wars phenomenon and the technical wizardry behind the new Special Edition re-releases. [More]

If you watched the first part of the featurette that aired on CBS with the US network television premiere of Star Wars, you may have seen a short clip of Walter Cronkite meeting with George Lucas and visiting Industrial Light and Magic (ILM). We have tracked down and done our best to restore the whole segment of Cronkite's "Universe". [More]

A week after the release of Star Wars: The Special Edition, Fox Television celebrated the re-release of the original trilogy of legendary films by airing Star Wars: The Magic and the Mystery on Thursday February 6th 1997 at 8:00pm. In this one hour special, host Howie Long took viewers on a tour of the "Star Wars" universe and explored the making of the Special Editions. Download and watch the full US and UK versions. [More]

A lot of work went into restoring Star Wars for Harmy's Despecialized Edition. Watch this making of Documentary which details some of the sources and techniques that went in to bringing back the Theatrical Version of Star Wars. If you have been happily watching the official releases since 2004, you may be surprised by some of the changes you see corrected here... [More]